Gülşen
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Gülşen is a Turkish pop and Laiko singer. She registered increasing fame following the release of four albums and an image based on her sex-appeal. Her present image comes after the more sober looks she had adopted during her earlier albums.
[edit] Life and career
Gülşen was born on 29 May 1976 in İstanbul. She did her studies in her İstanbul quarter of Şehremini and in the Turkish Classical Music Department of Istanbul Technical University.
Her first album, "Be Adam" (O man!) which was released in 1996, gave Gülşen a good debut in Turkey's music world, and her second album, "Erkeksen" (If you are a man), came three years afterwards in 1999. Following another interval of three years, the album "Şimdi" (Now), released in 2002 was released. This did not attain the popularity she had hoped. The relative failure of this album could be attributed to the image she presented on her 2004 album "Of...Of...". The music video for the main title "Sarışınım" (My blonde), in which she was barely covered with blurred spots on a few parts of her slim body, was judged as obscene by the state watchdog for TV broadcasts, RTÜK (High Board for Radio and TV), and a number of TV channels were issued warnings for having broadcast the clip.
The last album she produced, "Yurtta aşk, cihanda aşk" (Love in the country, love in the world), a reference to Atatürk's famous phrase, peace in the country, peace in the world was released in June 2006. In the meantime, Gülşen's private life also gets a lot of coverage in the Turkish news media and gossip tabloids. In order to reach an international public, she uses the name "Gulshen" to assure a correct spelling of her given name.
